Bedrock AgentCore (AWS)
https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/
AWS Bedrock AgentCore — managed runtime to deploy + scale + observe agents. Multi-component: Runtime, Identity, Memory, Gateway, Browser, Code Interpreter, Observability. Distinct from Bedrock Agents (older fixed-config product); AgentCore is the 2025 framework-agnostic runtime for any agent (LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands, OpenAI Agents SDK).
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 38 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- AWS-managed runtime + memory + tools for agents vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- aws/bedrock-agentcore-sdk-python — ~750 stars (Apache-2.0 SDK; service itself closed source), last commit n/a repo fix
- Pricing
- Pay-per-use, no seat fee: Runtime from $0.0895/vCPU-hr + $0.00945/GB-hr; Gateway $0.005/1k calls; new AWS customers get up to $200 Free Tier credits vendor fix
- Funding
- Amazon / AWS (parent) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 3.19 (12-mo avg 5.92) · 28 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: framework-agnostic AWS-managed agent runtime
Anti-fit: AWS-centric; preview-tier maturity; pricing complexity
Pros & cons
Pros
Only major-cloud-managed framework-agnostic agent runtime; OTel observability is first-class; chooses Mem0 as canonical memory provider.
Cons
Preview; AWS-only; pricing complexity inherited from AWS; lots of moving parts to learn (Runtime + Identity + Memory + ...).
Claims & capabilities
AWS-managed runtime preview Jul 2025; framework-agnostic; integrates with Strands Agents, Mem0 as memory provider.
Technical surface
- API surface
- AWS SDK (Python, JS, Java); Bedrock API
- Backend storage
- AWS-managed (DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch under the hood)
- Deployment
- Managed-only — AWS-hosted (Runtime, Gateway, Memory, Identity, Browser, Code Interpreter, Observability)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- AWS account isolation
- MCP
- yes — Gateway exposes APIs/Lambdas as MCP servers; Runtime hosts MCP-compatible tools; Agent Registry publishes MCP servers
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenTelemetry — AgentCore Observability is OTel-based
Alternatives to Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support
Similar systems
Other agent ides & coding harnesses in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Claude Code (Anthropic) T1
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Claude as a coding agent in the terminal, IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains), desktop app, web/mobile, GitHub and Slack. Context via CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, subagents and MCP servers.
- Cursor (IDE) T1
AI-first IDE that forked VS Code; Composer (multi-file edit) and Agent Mode (long-running coding agent) are its flagship surfaces. Memory layer = .cursorrules / Rules; recall via repo-aware Context Engine. Anysphere (parent) raised $900M Series C at $9.9B in May 2025; acquired by SpaceX (announced 2026-08-14, terms undisclosed), product continues under the Cursor brand.
- OpenAI Codex CLI T1
OpenAI's actively developed OSS terminal coding agent (Apr 2025), now written in Rust (codex-rs replaced the original TS CLI); also IDE extension + desktop app. Separate from the Codex Web cloud agent and the retired 2021 Codex model API. The codex mcp-server command (Codex as an MCP server) was deprecated on 2026-08-24 and removed in CLI 0.154.0 (2026-09-09); OpenAI points integrations to the experimental Codex app server, and codex mcp still connects Codex to external MCP servers.
- Opencode (SST) T2
SST team's open-source terminal coding agent — TypeScript, multi-model, MCP-native. Released 2025; explicitly positioned as a permissively-licensed Claude Code alternative. Memory via AGENTS.md (the emerging cross-harness convention).
- GitHub Copilot (Agent Mode) T1
The original AI coding assistant (Copilot in editor; 2021). 2025 evolved into a full agentic surface: chat, completions, Agent Mode (multi-step), and Copilot Workspace. Backed by Microsoft. Distinct row from Workspace — this row covers the everyday in-editor + agent mode product, Workspace covers the hosted spec-driven workflow.
- Goose (Block) T2
Block (Square)'s open-source on-machine agent — terminal + desktop GUI. Modular: extensions for shell, computer-control, MCP servers; multi-model via LiteLLM. Released 2024; positioned as a general-purpose local agent, not coding-only. Goose Recipes provide reusable agent workflows.
Sources (37 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is AWS-managed runtime + memory + tools for agents vendor
- What it does & what's distinct AWS Bedrock AgentCore — managed runtime to deploy + scale + observe agents. Multi-compon… vendor
- Claims / benefits AWS-managed runtime preview Jul 2025; framework-agnostic; integrates with Strands Agents… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2025-07 vendor
- GitHub aws/bedrock-agentcore-sdk-python — ~750 stars (Apache-2.0 SDK; service itself closed sou… repo
- Mindshare AWS re:Invent 2025 keynote; trade press coverage on preview launch vendor
- Funding Amazon / AWS (parent) vendor
- Customers / scale AWS Bedrock customers (preview) vendor
- Pricing Pay-per-use, no seat fee: Runtime from $0.0895/vCPU-hr + $0.00945/GB-hr; Gateway $0.005/… vendor
- Compliance AWS compliance (SOC, ISO, FedRAMP) vendor
- Data handling AWS Trust posture vendor
- Deployment Managed-only — AWS-hosted (Runtime, Gateway, Memory, Identity, Browser, Code Interpreter… vendor
- HQ US (Amazon / AWS) vendor
- Founders / pedigree AWS internal team (led by Swami Sivasubramanian, Deepak Singh) vendor
- API surface AWS SDK (Python, JS, Java); Bedrock API vendor
- Backend storage AWS-managed (DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch under the hood) vendor
- Multi-tenancy AWS account isolation vendor
- Encryption AWS KMS vendor
- SSO / RBAC AWS IAM vendor
- Namespace primitives per-agent + per-AWS-account vendor
- Contradiction handling LLM resolves vendor
- MCP support yes — Gateway exposes APIs/Lambdas as MCP servers; Runtime hosts MCP-compatible tools; A… vendor
- OTel OpenTelemetry — AgentCore Observability is OTel-based vendor
- Validated verticals AWS-hosted enterprise agents — broad horizontal vendor
- Time to running <1day (AWS account + agent build) vendor
- Anti-fit AWS-centric; preview-tier maturity; pricing complexity vendor
- Optimised for framework-agnostic AWS-managed agent runtime vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure AWS Bedrock; Mem0 (as memory provider); Strands Agents vendor
- Pros Only major-cloud-managed framework-agnostic agent runtime; OTel observability is first-c… vendor
- Cons Preview; AWS-only; pricing complexity inherited from AWS; lots of moving parts to learn … vendor
- Project & sources aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore; AWS re:Invent 2025 sessions vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":62.5,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":5.92,"openrank_current":3.19,"partici… third-party
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-26
- Pricing “Usage-based AWS pricing” → “Pay-per-use, no seat fee: Runtime from $0.0895/vCPU-hr + $0.00945/GB-hr; Gateway $0.005/1k calls; new AWS customers get up to $200 Free Tier credits” source
- Deployment “Cloud (AWS-managed)” → “Managed-only — AWS-hosted (Runtime, Gateway, Memory, Identity, Browser, Code Interpreter, Observability)” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — Gateway exposes APIs/Lambdas as MCP servers; Runtime hosts MCP-compatible tools; Agent Registry publishes MCP servers” source
Related systems
References (3)
- Mem0 depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: AWS Bedrock; Mem0 (as memory provider); Strands Agents
- OpenSearch depends on at runtime — backend-storage cell: AWS-managed (DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch under the hood)
- Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — integrates with Strands Agents, Mem0 as memory provider.
Referenced by (18)
- agentgateway integrates with — agentgateway standalone docs have a "Connect to AWS Bedrock AgentCore" agent-runtime routing page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Amazon Nova family depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: AWS Bedrock (distribution); Amazon Q Developer / Q Business; Alexa+; Trainium/Inferentia chips
- Amazon Q Developer depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: AWS Bedrock; AWS IAM; CloudWatch
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires AWS Bedrock + AgentCore
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Fireworks AI docs integration: AWS AgentCore. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Kiro depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: AWS Bedrock (model routing); Anthropic Claude + Amazon Nova
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a Bedrock AgentCore Browser tool integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM docs have a Bedrock AgentCore provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official tool integration package llama-index-tools-aws-bedrock-agentcore in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mastra integrates with — Mastra repo ships the @mastra/agentcore workspace package (AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime sandbox provider). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Meta Llama 4 family depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: HuggingFace Transformers; vLLM; llama.cpp; Together AI; Groq; AWS Bedrock; Azure AI Foundry
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Mistral Le Chat consumer (separate row); Codestral for code agents; Mistral Forge on-prem; AWS Bedrock / Azure AI distribution
- Neo4j integrates with — Neo4j's GenAI ecosystem docs have a Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have an AWS AgentCore agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a guide for deploying Strands agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Strands Agents Memory (AWS) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires AWS; Bedrock + Mem0 / AgentCore Memory
- Temporal integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Serverless Workers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. (verified 2026-10-29)